Sentences with phrase «as calls to discipleship»

As a consequence, their pleas for radical change are sometimes perceived not as calls to discipleship but rather as ego - trips to expiate guilt or even attempts to re-create others in their own image.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

As Christians and churches, we must see as an act of God's grace and forgiveness as well as a call to discipleship and commitment that we — who many times have been indifferent to the suffering of the poor, or allied with their domination — are allowed to join in the struggle for justice.

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If so, that makes it particularly useful as a source for examining various calls to discipleship.

Communicants classes would graduate into church membership as their committed response to the call to discipleship or perhaps as part of an Epiphany pageant.

God calls forth a «countercultural community of discipleship» which is «called to embody an alternative order that stands as a sign of God's redemptive purposes in the world.»

We need to think about new models of organization which are not so bishop or rector centered and which support and enhance the clergy role as spiritual leaders within the Church and which call all the members to a new sense of discipleship.

Because all people do not respond to the preaching of the gospel and its concomitant call to discipleship, however, the gospel itself demands that Christians both encourage society to» «make serious and positive use of the social theories» of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures,» and help society to heal social injustices by loving our neighbors as ourselves.21 Toward this end, the church must first of all proclaim to the world the Bible's perfect rule not only for faith but also for practice.

But the organization's leaders deliberately emphasize the role of the local church «as the primary means of faithful expression to God» and continued discipleship among groups of women through its year - round Bible studies, called IF: Equip.

Discipleship as answering Jesus» call to follow him by being radically obedient to the commands of Christ, particularly as they are found in the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount.

Monastic missionaries, both women and men, would live among and educate the so - called «barbarians,» only later to give in to the tactics of a Charlemagne pressing the monasteries into strategies of Western empire - building, which, in turn, evoked ongoing reforms as wealth dulled and darkened a genuine Christian discipleship (CSP 1 - 43).

As many commentators point out, this is a call to discipleship.

The task of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which in this instance means using the arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics of disruption to do the work of justice.

Discipleship to Jesus, therefore, while it saved men from lower orders of suffering, such as penalty for sin, called men to the higher order of self - sacrifice.

As more imprecise support for a circle of discipleship to Isaiah, one calls attention to the nature of the present book of Isaiah, the remarkable unity pervading its various major sections (including not only chs.

This means that no pastoral care can be complete which does not assume a form including a call to renewed discipleship to those capable of actively witnessing to the Kingdom of God in their own lives, as well as a call to affirm respectfully the incapacitated as themselves signs of God's gracious presence and identification with those deemed hopeless in the world's sight.